Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1874, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1874. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1876, RATEA OF AUDSCRIPTION (PAYARLE IN ADVAKCE), Postuge Fropnid nt this Olice, a3 88 B Sunia; Baltpatipet 1 E88 | wal Parta of & your ot the sama rato, 7o prerent delay and mistakes, bo suro and glvo Poste Ofleo address in full, Including Htato and County, ‘emiltancos may bonindocithor by draft, exprosy, Post- Oce edsr, or tu reglatersd lottors, at aur risk, TRNNG TO CITY AUDNCRINENS, aoltrored, Bunday oxconted, 2> cents porweoks 130 conts por woeks THIE THIDUNT COMPANY, ‘Gazner Madison and Dearborn-sts,, Ohloago, Nt e m——r———— TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. QHIOAGO MUS! 2UM—Monroo siract, halmosn Doar- born and Stato. Romanu and Jeallty, EIUS THEATIE~Maliton stront, batmesn Pflfi.ggf" Stato, Engagoment of Edwin Uooth. * fihglook opparitn y o SR t GRAND. OPERA.NOUSE-Clark _ stroo Ropltn frorman, Moo, Kally & ouu's Atinstrols, Iack Statuo,™ AMUSIC—TTalaled strost, batwaen Mad- nimo-'l‘mupc. 4 Humpty Dumpty, FIOOLEY'S THEATRE-—landalph strest, between Clark and Laall uils’ SOCIETY MEETINGS. 5, Statad Conclave of I, thia (Fauadny) o¥ane o BT orile W\ LOURE, Racorder. ATTENTION, BIR Apollo Commatdars, No. ing, at 7 orelock, at th Jm, Ste entgte caurtoguy KNIGI 1, K, ASULAR LODGE, No. 308, A, ' & A, M.—Tho third ) e Liodgo thia (Tuosary) ovoa- fl.'}'“f\'x‘i"x':fifu‘fi‘ufl‘.“‘n‘x"'v itz Sratornity Socdlally in- wited, " iy ordorof o We i o AN, goo'r. i LODGE, No. 409, A, F. and A, (ke e wiil odeur whnrsday voning, Doc. aconfo 1all, 33 Moz or tho Jleotlon of ofiicers und paymont of dues, Moiabord ero th s nae sl tatakoduo notlos and govpen, themaslus, a BUSINESS NOTICES. NETT'S FLAVORI XTRAOTS.~LEMON, inna 3 ‘""X‘?J Jdol )y N A ' 4 Buruett's extracls alnoo IE6): AUPE! gn R e R uahnol nuip. " i ot for tho past night years, can rocom. e o P I U, MARRET. o T, 11, teddard, 2iiva, tho Lot of eatlefaction toour trada, Can yecom. h:hul"x THE FINESY IN TUR MAREET."—Suls & 3413 by 4l Ozacors and Drugeiats. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ¢ Clts, Subusban, and Country Real Foe Ry v T Totte, Duvivoss Chancos, Lost snd Xound, ete,, ore, VNI 1% QL Amasoments, Porodicals, Stosue elilne, Kallrond Time-Table, Modical Cards, (o, otc. The Clhirags Titbune, Tuosdny Morning, Deaomber 15, 1874, There arc two seloon-keepers in the Com- mon Council who didn't get appointments to the Committeo on Licenses, They were nob overlooked by President Drxoy, but choled off by the provision of the city charter which forbids {he appointment of moro than five men to any ono committee, e —— "Che report of the Commissioners engaged in winding up the affeirs of the Froedman's Bank, an abstract of which is given in the ‘Washington dispatches this morning, appenrs to be a most discouraging aud mournful doe- ument. It shows the entirorottenness of the concern, and suggests that thero has been un- asunl fraud or ignorance, or both, in its man. »gement, Mr. Bex Bursex has tho credit of dofeat- ng an excellent resolution, introduced in the Nationnl Houso of Leprogentatives yesterdny, which declared the sense of the Houso to bo In opposition to the granting of any more subsidies, Mr. Horwax, be it said, is n Dem- ocrnt, and a good oue; while Mr. BurLer isn very bad Republican,—too bed to represont the Bssex District in Cougress agajn. Tho suspension of the Republic, tha young Tepublican daily in New York, ought not to swipriso enybody. It was asubservient organ, ntterly unworthy of the party which it pre- sumed te represont. Its fatal mistake was in necepting the voice of Republican lenders ns the voice of God, instend of being itself a Tepublican lendor, ns it might have becomo if it hod correcily interproted the popular will, 5 Messrs, T & Rives, ecrst the publishers of the Congressional Globe, have impudently peSiioned Congress to purchaso their build- ing and printing-materinls. We don't seo why Congress should do any such absurd and extravagant thing. The Riveses made a fortune out of the Governmont printing, the profits on their contracts amounting, first and last, to several millions of dollars, Their old traps nnd building are not worth baving, Tt is renlly crowding the mourners for them to ask any exivacompensation from Congress, Mr, Lyaay 'Trexamx's proposed amend- ment to tho Poland-Butler-Carpenter pres gsg low is o vast improvement upon that inignitous enactment, and yet it is not in all respeots what we desive, It allows indiet ments to bofound in the District of Columbia, thus assuming that a newspaper is published wheraver it circulates, and creating s national 1aw of libel, The objections to the bill, kow- ever ara theorotical rather than practical, All triels must ocour in o United States Court for the District or Cirenit in which thenoews- paper i published, so that, if ToEMAMN'S amendment should pass, there would be no immedinte danger of an ' abridgment of the Ubortyof the press, The amendment procecds opon a wrong prineiple, That is all, The dabt of tho State of Illinois on the 1st of January, 1875, will only be 31,730,970, Of this sum, §260,000 will bo prid on that date, leaving a balanco of $1,630,000, This in. cludes 312,221 old debt on which interest has {Gido cash, and 58 8-4o for Jauuary., Byo waa quiot and firm at D4 1-2@YG0, Darley wns dull, and 11-20lower, closing at 2126 for Jan- unry, Ilogs wora dull, nnd closed onsy. Sales chiofly at 36.06@7.25 for common to cholce. Cattlo wero stondy and in fair de- mand, Sheep wero finm and unchangod. Another Unele Diclk, whose claims to the confidence nnd esteom of the country aro nbout on a par with those of the venerablo Tiromanp Soucrx, has been found inthoperson of Ricnanp O, Parsoxs, of Ohio. Nobody can tell at this ently day how much collnteral has Dbeen placed in tho hands of Unclo Dick, of Ohio; but it has Dbeen sufll. ciently established that many porsons, cor- porntions, nud rings pledged their honor to him, and that his percontages on account of tha nccommodations which lio extended liave nmounted in tho aggregato to a hand- somo sum. Silenco nnd secreey aro essentinl to the proscoutionof such a business ns Unclo Dicl, of Ohio, conducted. All his faflures in business have been caused by tho want of theso, Mo was detected in the paving-con- tract matter becauso ho talked too loud and too much; and his ignominious exposure in tho Houso yesterdny, touching his connco- tion with tho Pacifio Mail subsidy, was even moro directly due to foolish specoli. Unclo Dick, of Ohio, wmust have loarned by this time that silenco is golden, Too much lip- servico hiag rutined him, o has missed n ro- olection already ; and e will probably miss in the futuro a good many fatfoes which le might have had as chief of the lobby. Tho President of the Common Council has, on tho whole, mado up the standing com- mittees of that body well. RicumanpsoN re- mains at the head of the Judiciary, and the now members aro improvements upon their predocessors, Public Buildings is composed of Cory, CruvELAND, McCrowry, SCHAFINER, and R, Stoxz; Finance, of Heatn, Quink, R. B. Stong, Lyscnm, and Scoaresen; Fire and ‘Water, of Woopyan, R. B. Srone, Cory, Maur, and Case. Probably no bettor selections could Lo made for theso commitices from the materinl that Presi- dont DixoN hed to deal with. Wa wish it wero possiblo to end nas happily ns wo* begin with. But it isn’t. Tho Committco on Licouses, ono of the most important of all, is o frand; and it is scarcely possible that President Dixon did not kmow it tobo a fraud. The members of it ara Concorax, Forey, Eckuarpr, Maup, and O'Brimy—all saloon.l:cepors. Conrcora¥, the Clinirman, is a gambler as well as a saloon-keeper. To intrust the preparation of all legislation on licenses to such a com- mitteo is a perversion of power too great to need o single word of comment. The only oxcuse for it is that it recognizes in the most completo and substantisl manner the victory of tho People's Party last month, It hands an important department of the City Gov- crnment over to the bone and sinow of the People’s Party,—the snloon-kespers and gam- blers. Now tho questionis: What pledges did President Dixon make to the * People” in roturn for which le secured 8 unsni- mous re-clection ? THE FRESIDENT ON CIVIL-BERVICE RE- FORM, The part of the President's messago de- voted to Civil-Servico Reform has not ns yet received tho attention it deserves. The prominent position given in the messagy to the financial problem and the Congressional dobato on that theme have go far almost monopotized editorial and news columns sinco the messago wes published, It must not bo forgotten, however, that Civil-Servico Reform is still one of tho unsettled quostions before the country. Tho idol of the De- maoeraey, Awnpsrw Jacksow, first put the Democratiec dogma which avother Democrat, Wintrax L. Manoy, is said to have framed, “Po tho viclors Dbelong the spoils,” into practice. 'When the Republican party eamo into power, M. Lixcory found thatavery largo proportion of the National ofice-holdors wero 1nithless to the nation. The Republican be- came the Union party. It wos meet that ouly Union men should hold oftico under a Union that was struggling for life. So the old Demoeratic evil took root agein undor the mew rule. A nation that fights caunot reform at theo samo time. ‘When the War ended with the retirement of Axpx Jomxsoy, Civil-Service Roform, ignored by the Democracy during its quarter of o con- tury of corrupt power from JacksoN to Bucianay, was made prominont by tho Re- publican party a8 soon ns its cxortions had Drought penco to the country. The credit of thisn wns chiefly duo to President Gmaxz. Acuto observers, at homo and abroed, had deolared that tho groatest peril of our Gov- ernment, next to slavery, wastho provalenco of the degrading doctrine that Congressmon Tad tho right to buy thelr clections by par- ecling out the Government offices in thoir districts among the wire.pullers and caucus- managers who, by packing conventions, se- cured them theirnominations. 'ThoPresident realized this before tho people did. His firat eflorts to carry out the reform, thereforo, Ilncked popular support, Nevertheless, he porseverod with tho stubbornness that has given him his victories, and at last, with the help of the ablo men associated with him in the movement, he convinced the poople of ihe necessity of the roform. Congress, how- over, has not yet bgen convinced. The mem- bers in that body who owed their clections to thoix respective camp-followers and could not buy re-cloction without the use of a corrup- tion-fund in the shape of Federal Post- Offices, Attornoyships, larshalships, Col- | of six months, lectorships, Inspectorships, Gaugerships, ceased, and which has nover been presented for payment. Tho Stato could readily pay the remainder of a million and & half, but has no mepnst of compelling the creditors to accept their, money. Thirty-five thousand dollnrs #4lsr due’ Jnnuary, 1877 ; $1,167,460 can bo p’%}éfin January, 1878, and $241,000 in Jan- ugfy, 1879, As the money to poy ol this dgbbyis in the Trensury, or will bo paid in duiing 1875 nnd 1870 without resort,to tax- ation, me‘ State of Nlinols may be said to bo practically frea of debt, and will probably be Leept £roe of dubt for many years to come,” The Chicago produce mnrl:("n'ts ‘woro rather taine yosterday, Mess pork ‘was leas active, and 20@380c per brl lower, \ closing at ©10,27 1-2 cosh, nnd $19.75@19.80 for February, Lard wns relatively quict and easior, closing at $18.00 por 100 s cash, nod $18.80 seller February., Ments wero duH, snd 1.8@1-{o lower, at 6 1.20 for ghoulders, 0. 1-de for short riby, and 9 1.20 for short clears, Iighwines wero netive and steady, at 970 por gallon. Flour was dull and unchanged, Wheat was moro nctive and 1e lowar, closing at 880 casb, and 88 1-40 askoa seller January, Corn way neglocted and enslor, elosing at 75 8-to for old, 60 B.da for new, and 74 B-fo seller May, ©Oats wexa quiot, nud 3-4o lower, dlosing at ote,, ato,, have Dbitterly opposed the reform the President was trying to cnrry out. A gang of nominal Republicaus *‘on tho mako,” hended by Burirs, snd backed, We regret to sny, by o Sonatorfrom this Stato, hava gnoered at the very idea of Civil-Service Roform; havo nired thoir shallow wits at its expense; have induced Congross, which, lilo oll legislative bodies, loses no chanco to ox- tend ite powers aud patronage, to partinlly usurp tho Excontivo power, #o far as ofilces are concerned ; have dofented the approprin- tion of a fow thousnud dollars for the support of the monsure which the people and the Presidont defiiand, whilo voting subsidies and Innd-grants of 1oillions ’to’ giant monopolies liko tho Pacifto Mail and wild.cat railrond:i; end have left no atono untorned to keop official patronage in their own hands, ‘They have partly succeeded in starving the reform almost to denth, ‘Tho President could not enrry tho roform alone, His oppononts lind the power, at tho lnst cleotion, to prom- iso offices in pay for osucus-debta, They did 80, and thoy disgusted tho people, How do they like the popular rosponso ¢ Buyszn hay discaverod that the Essox Distrlet is no longer ruled by oustom-houses, Other mon of hiy stomp have found out tho came thing, Af- falrs have now renched o crlsls, Tho Presi- dent csnnot clonnse thoso Augean stablos alono, o says ko, in plain words, and do- monds that Congresa shall do its duty unless the roform ia to bo nltogother abandoned. Tlo snys : . 1t Gongress adjourns without positive legislation on 4ho mibjoct of Civil-Scrvico Retorm, I will regard such action as & disapproval of tho aystem, nud will aban- don it, excopt ro fur as{o roquire oxaminatlons for cotlain appolntons to determiue tholr fituess, - Cotne potitivo oxaminations will be abaudoned. The gentlo- men who havo glven thoir nervices without compon- antlon, a8 membors of the Board, todevise riles and regulations for tho govornmont of tho Clvil Bervico of tho country, havo shown miuch zoal and earneatness in thelr worlc; and to them, s veell an to myself, {t wilf ho o sourca of wortificatlon At it $a to bo tirown away, But T repoat, that it Is {mpossiblo to earry (his system to o successful Isauo without genoral approval and as~ alstance, and posttivelaw to support | THE (HICAGO PUBLIC® LIBRARY. If thore has been one public trust in this city moro neglocted and abused by tho Coun- oil than any othor, it is tho Public Library during the Inst year; and this in apito of its great intrinsio merit, tho fidelity and oxcel- lenco of ita managoment, the wide.apread in. torest which the publio feel in it, and tho closo personal attention that hag beon given it Ly tho Bonrd of Diroctors. Dut tho City Government, under tho miscalled * Peoplo’s party,” instead of regarding tho Public Libra- ry as an important element in our educational system, hng sob it asido as an insignifiennt at- tachment to the body politio which must take caro of itself if it Lopes to keop alive. Tho Legislaturo has authorized tho city to appro- printe one-fifth of n mill of the taxes nssesaod to the usoe of the Library, which, at the present ratc of iaxation, would givo it about $060,000 n yenr. At tho Jast annual nppropriation, the Library Board gsked the amount to which it was en- titled, on account of tho urgent demands of tho publio for an incronsed number of hooks, and in order to sustnin tho early usefulnoss of the institution, nud thereby assure a per- manont usefulness in the future, But, in the faco of the meritorious representations the Board wero ablo to make, the Mayor and Comptroller, in behalf of popular ignoranco, rocommended o reduction of the approprin- tion to $26,000, and tho Council fixed it at that figure, 'The Library Bonrd had no con- tracts to lot, no jobs to offer, no commissiona to pay. In onc word, there was *no money in it,” and the city officinls ngreed with o re- marknble unanimity to cut the institution off at tho lowest figure that would not kill it out- right. Mr. Tuoxas Hovne, the President of tho Library Board, hns made an earnest appenl to. the new Council to supply tho deficiency in the appropriation made by its predecessor. The institution needs no other commendn- tion than that which its own record shows. It bias exhibited alrendy a progross which is simply unparnlieled in the history of free libraries in this country, It hns nccomplished in o fow months what has required years to attain in other citics. months it had 8 larger number of borrowers of books than thoe Boston Library had ot the end of fiveyems. Tho Cincinnati Library, after an existenco of six yearsand with thrico as many books, had but half the circulation of tho Chiecngo Library at the end The destruction of all the public and private libraries of this city in thie grent firo of 1871 accounts to somo extent for this extraordinary demand,—this thirst for books. Tho spirit shown by tho Ohiengo public in this matter is one that ought to bo encouraged in every possible wny as a malter of public polity. Instead of doing this, tho Board Las been obliged to adopt a resolution not to buy any more books, for want of monocy. The number of volumes now be- Tonging to tho Library is 32,197 ; the registra- tion of book-borrowers now shows that there aro 16,819. Thoro has been s monthly in- crenso since tho opening of the Library of 2,338, and a daily incresse of 90. At this rato, tho number of borrowers will actually exceed the number of books in a vory fow months if no mora volunfes avo added. Itis impossible to incresso the number of books under the present sppropriation. The fol- lowing exhibits the svailablo remources for the year : Not erodit, Dec, 1, 1674 (deducting warrants ot yot paid und proportion of Gage's defl- cloucy),... vaesees $ 5A0L04 Tixpectaid canli pri i of 1674 und 1473 . 5,000.00 Expociod eash procs o8 of 16741, 1,000,00 Botal suiaisavesssvssrisiaivess sevvsose STLEINGE It will requivo about £8,000 to cover outstanding orders, and this will lenve only cbout $24,000 to meot tho r1unning ox- peunses of tho yeer 1875, which amount to $30,000. Thus, without addihg ono book, actunl bankruptey and btorvation stares this flowdshing institution in the face within less than a year; and, if nothing more is done for it, it will bo obliged to close its doors, Buch a result as this would bo an everlast- ing disgraco to the City of Chicago and a dis- nster to tho peoplo. We might just as freely contemplato the cloding of n number of our public schools, The result in tho one case would bo as damaging to public welfare as that which would followin tho other, Whon wo remomber that the full amount of money to which tho Public Library is fairly and aquitably entitled under the law is insignifi- cant as compated with the money appropri- ated {o every other publio service, the pres- ont Council ought to see tho injustice of the appropriation made by the last Council ; and, in viow of the threatenod calamity of closing the Public Library, it ought tomake adequato restitution for the year to come, THE BTATE AGSUMPTION OF MUNICIPAL DEBT, Qur Bpringfield correspondont discloses the fnet that there will bo nn offort made at the next session of tho Logislaturo to have the Stato ossume tho indebtodness of all the mu- nicipalitics of TMlinois. 'This debt is of threo kinds: County and city debts, contracted for municipal purposcs; city, county, and town debts, contrneted for subsoriptions and subsidics to railronds; debts confracted by school districts for school purposes. Tho firat clasy of theso debts bear an average rato of 7 per cont intorest, while tho railroad.aid Aobt avernges 9 1-¢ per cont interest, and tho school-district dobts wo think Dbonr 10 per oent. Tho railrond-sub. gidy debt nggregutes a principal of about 15,000,000, the interest on a part of which is unpaid, A yortion of this debt bas heen declared fraudulant by the courts, and moro of itis yet in litigation, 'I'he amount of tho other dehts is estimatod at from thirty to thirty-five millions, muking nn aggre. gato, in round numbasm, of about fifty millions. Some of trese municipalities have contrncted dobts far beyond their ohility of payment. There are, how- «yor, many counties whick owe no debts of any kind, and possibly one-third of tho town- ships in the Btate avo also free of debt, It s now proposed to coneolidate all theso dobls, lave the State sssume than, and then pay them, prinolpal aud interest, by n goneral tax upon tho property of tho wiolepooplo, 'This 8 a largo job, and ix tha fire schumo of laxgo At tho end of five profit that has been proposed since the now Constitution cut off all logislation for spocint intorests, “Lhix nssumption of munioipal dobts by the Stato involves, of courso, o comploto disrup- tion of tho presont Constitution. It mustbe ronched by an amondment to tho Constitu- tlon ropoaling tha present prohibitory provis. fons of that instrument, and tho adoption of another authorizing this nssumption of tho local debt, Tho total nssossed valuo of the taxable property in this Stata is, in round numbers, $1,200,000,000, which nauthorizos annggregato county indebtodness of $60,000,- 000, nud o township indebtedness of like smount, and of a city indebtednoss to, per- Dbaps, one-fourth that sum. It will bo soon, thorefore, that tho limit to which municipnl debt moy bo earried undor owr Constitution hns not yot beon reached, In sovoral instances, ns in Chicago, the mnsi- mum had beon reached at tho timo the Con- atitution was adopted, but ns a whola thers is a lnrge margin for municipal dobt under tho Constitution still unoxhnusted. Tho very agitation of this subject, therefore, will hinve tho tondency to induce nll thoso counties, citics, towns, and school distriots which havo not their full measuro of debt to hwry up that they may lavo thelr wholo share of the plunder. To nssumo the dobts of the varions municipali- ties, and mako them n general chargo upon the whole people, ns well those who owo nothing as thoso who owe butlittle, would bo an act of gross injustice, It would bo making tho people of Knox Oounty, or any other county freo of debt, pay n part of the debt of tho City of Ohiengo. It would mnke tho peoplo of Winnebago County pay for building tho Court-Houso in Carlinville, and mako the whole Stato of Ilinois pay the cost of building n five orsix millions of dollars' Court- House and City-Hall in Cook County. In 1884+ or 1835, when tho State adopted the general improvement system, it was en- ncted that any countyin which n railrond or a eanal was nobt provided should bo allowed to draw from the Stato Treasury n sum of money in proportion to its popula- tion, to offsot the advauntages given to other counties in the way of improvements. How ig tho inequality between theso counties and towns which owe littlo or no debt, and thoso which are heavily in delt, to be remedied ? But sapposing tho Stato nssumo all tho debta due by the several munleipalities at the date of the adoption of the kheme, ssy in 1876, what is to prevent these same municipalities thus emancipated again plunging into debt to the extent of tho constitutional limit ? Then in time will be xereated the job of hay- ing the Stato nssume tke improvident local debts, and thus practicaly tho business and power of creating State debts will bo exer- cised by every City Couacil, Board of Super- visors, and Board of School Trustees in the State., 1t is stated that the Iegislature will be so- riously nsked at this twssion to propose an amendment to the Ceustitution ombodying this scheme, to be voteGon Ltwo years lience. Such a schemo is preporterous. Its agitation con have no ofher effed; than to induce mu- nicipalities now heavil; in debt to suspend payment, and to inducoothers to plungo into debt. It should bo not mly defeated, but de- feated so empliaticully that the iniquity would not be presented again. The timo has not yet como for the ropeal of the universul law that overy man should pay his own delts, and not ask his neighbors to do it for him, v CHICACO’S IMPORTATIONS, In nrocent article in Yuz LripuNe upon “Shipments in Tond to the Wost,” reforring to the complaints by New York of the under- valuation of dutiable poods imported by in- terior cities, and showing that such com.- plaints are only prelimisary to an effort upon tho part of Now York to sceuro a repenl of the law making Cbicag> and other interior cities ports of entry, a1 error was made in stating that thero aro searcely any free goods importedattheport of Chicago. Thoe statoment did not affoct tho gonerd tenor of the articlo, but its correetion in ona or two important par- ticulars is duo to the reil magnitude of tho commerco of Chicago. Wa refer maroe par- ticularly to coffees and teas, tho receipts of ‘which at the port of Chiergo will surprise the general reader. The receipts of Rio coffeo via Boston for tho year wereabout 22,000 bags; of Coylon and Java, 5,000 ; nmounting in all to three and a half millions of pounds, One of tlio most prominent ten houses of this city has just jssued o ecirculor which contains somo very valunblo information regarding tho dircot importntion of teas to Chicago and their distribution. The imports of blacks, groens, and Japans to Chicago for the cleven months ending Dee. 1, 1874, amounted to 50,834 half chests, or about 1,270,850 pounds; of Japans nlone, 39,801 half chests. As com- paved with Chicago during the samo time in Japans alone, St, Louis rocoived 10,815 half chests ; Dotroit, 867; Milwaukee, 3,053 ; Dubuque, 994; Canadn, 13,820; Doston, 5,996, The New Yorle figures avo not given, ‘Wo also print from this circular the following interesting statoment relative to tho move- ment of Japan teas from Juno 1 to Dee. 1, 1874: > Pounds, Recoipts at Now York, {ncluding lots trans- shipped to Canada and Boatos 'l Tots tr:nsabipped to Ohizago 8,003,783 Recelpta ot san Francisco, de ‘moroly traushipped to intenor polnty., 9,056,110 Rocelpts ut Clileno (direct mportn only)... 849,060 Tocelptu ot Milwaukes (dirootimports ouly) 180,000 Rovedpts uf Detroit (diroct fmports onls),. 10,000 Neceipts at Dubuquo (divect imports m\ly;. 83,930 Yocefptoat St, Louls (drect fporlaonly)s 19,100 Uveriand rocsipts, Canada., . W BIGAIG Overland recoipts, Boston, v, 200,800 Stoviz in flest hunds, Juno 1, 1,049,05L Btoek 1n tirut Lunde, Juno 1, Oloag 123,000 Stock fu firut Liauds, June 1, San Fran 5090 13,501,919 8tock {n firat hands, New York, Dee, 1 (fmpartora’ and Grocors’ Bowd catlmnte) Stock i firat L Cauada, Doo, I (u rough estimate) 600,000 Stock Ju first handy, Chicago, Deo, 1 830,000 Etook fn o, 635,000 5,008,010 Apparent consumption in United Siates and Causda for ¢ monthu euding Duc, T, 18T41evuseninnnes 9,804,769 With reference to distribution, the cirenlar adds: e wonld say that 100,000 it chosts ta o low osti~ mate of tho quantity of all kinds distributed by Obl- ¢ago Jobbura to tho country trado. Milwaukeo dfatri- ‘utionn will oot up 20,000 halt cheets, Olnclunadl ve- celved Intotal, for tho year ending Bept, 1, 1874, 18,010 halt chosts, ngatust 16,121 Infho year endiug Septemn= Lor, 1873, and 17,783 {0 1812, Bt, Louls Lus received for 11 months endivg Dey, 1, 1374, 33,610 vack uges (abont 9,000 half chertawora teaw (moatly Japanc) consigued by Sau Franclaco trms, and fu part sold to Obfo aud Indlcus jobbers), 09 sgatust 16,000 to 17,000 in yeaws previous, i Such figuros as these spenk volumes for tha importing business of Ohicago, not alone ns comparod with tho inlerior cities, but evon with tho great Enstern ports like Now York ond Boston, They show that Chicago is not only the shipper and distributor of the coroal products, pork,lmo{, ond lumber of tho West, but is rapidly growing to be the great dlstrib- utor of foroign products, This of itself is suflicient to nocount for the hug and cry of moroantile sburp prootlos by undervaluse i tions in appraisnls, nnd the attompt to compel OChicago morchants to ro- sumo ihelr purchnsos in Now York, instend of holdly entering the Now York mar- Tot and underselling Now York merchants on their own grounds, Tho first attempl was mado through the insuranco ecompanics to brealk down tho oredit of Chicago merchants, This failed, and now comes the hue and ery of undervaluations in apprafsal. This will also fail. If Now York Las no betfer argn- ment to offor for tho xepealof the law making Chienga port of antry than this misorable subterfuge, by whick it sceka to inereaso its own profits by reducing tho profitsof Chicago, it might as well savo its labor, (v 3 Tho termsof oftico of the fiftecn Justices of tho Peace of this oity expiro in April, 1875, and tho Judges of the Courts will meot in January to nominato n list of persons from which list the Governor will make his aclec- tions, Already tho rush for these offices hins beguu. There is hardly n business man fn the city who is not daily importuned by can- didates domanding letiors and recommendan tions to the Judges. It would sdem that every porson defeated in his aspirations for Aldorman, County Commissioner, Legislaturo, and for placo in the Fire and Polico Depart- menta hay now concluded to bo n Justiceof the Penco, regardless of all considoration of fitness or qualification. Tho presont Jus- ticos aro: South Division, N. B. Boyden, Calvin Do Wolf, J. O. Haines, Charles Dnggott, 8. O. Hinsdnlo; West Division, Daniel Scully, H. 8. Austin, David Walsh, A, D. Stortovant, John Van't ‘Woud; North Division, Houk Knufmnnn, Thomas Canuon, Francis Roollo, P, L. Hawkinson, and R. O. Hammill. Al of these, we suppose, aro candidates for reappointment. It is reason-. able to presumo that the Judges will rocom- mend all those of tho presont Bonrd who are ronlly it for the offica for reappointment, 50 that the numbor of vacancies will not exceed ono for ench thirty outside candidates, The majority of the presont Justices are rospect- ablo oflicors, and, while the Judges may rea- sonably recommend changes, they will not certainly do so for tho mere sake of giving places to local bunmors, or professional politicinug, or importunate spplicauts whose chief clnim is impecuniosity. Tho object of placing the appoiutmont of theso Justicos in the hands of the Governor, and of having the Governor advised in tho matter by the Judges, was that the Iattor, be- ing freo of all political or partisan fecling, and above all obligations to petty politicians, could really consult the genernl good by ex- cluding all porsons whosoe character, educa- tion, personal habits, nnd previons oceupa- tions nnd associations disqualified them from o respectablo dischargo of their duties. This is what the law expected, and what the pub- lic expeets of the Judges in their aotion on this matter, Tho Board of Justices should be improved and not lowered ; changos,when noeded, should bo made fentlessly, and now men should always bo selected with a view to clevate the charncter of the whole Board of Justices, In throwing out the woeds, it does not follow that other woeds should be intro- duced. No consideration of polities should onter into this selection of Justices ; honesty, fitness, and personal respectability should govern in overy case. BUNGLING LEGISLATION, A fino specimen of bungling logislation is furnished in Scc. 21 of Chap. 69 of Huno's Statutes, relating to injunctions. It is proper to say, however, that Mr. Flurp is not re- sponsible for the botch-work to which wo re- fer. Tho Supremo Court had hold that an appeal upon a bill filed for an injunction did not of itself operate to continue tho injunc- tion. Accordingly, tho Logisleturo attempted to remedy the difficulty, and by tho section referred fo provided that no appeal from a deeroe dissolving nn injunction should have the effect to continue in forco the injunction unless the appeal was prayed for at the en- toring of the decree. And tho Court allow- ing the same should so order; or, un. lees the party praying the apponl should, within ton days after the appeal is allowed, procuro from tho Supremo Court if in session, or a Judge thercof if in vacation, nn order directing that tho appenl should have the effect to continue such in- junction in force, and that no such order shall be granted except for good ecausa ap- peaving tn the record. Tho clumsiness and the absurdity of this statute becomos apparent when it is remem- bered that it is frequently utterly impossible to procure a record within ten days ufter tho appeal is allowed. The appeal is proyed for nnd allowed at the timoof the rendition of the decree, 'Timo is then given to file tho appeal bond and tho bill of exceptions, usually from thirty to sixty days. The ap. peal is not perficted until the bond is filed, and tho record cannot bo made up until after the bond and bill of exceptions are both filod and allowed, and then thoy ave both copied into the record. Tho applica. tion to the Supremo Court, or a Judge thero- of in vacation, must be based upon the rec- ord, and, although the appollant may bo al- lowed sixty days from the time the appenl is allowed in which to file i bill of cxecptions and bond, he i8 required by this blundeving statute to make his application, and this, too, upon the rccord, for a continuance of the injunction Zen days aftertho apponl is allowed, end {ifty days before ho is required to filo tho papers from which the record is made. But tho statuto provides that the Supreme Comt, or o Judgo thereof, may, for good cause, ex- tend tho time for procuring such ordor, Until the appeal is perfocted, thero is nothing upon which that Conrt can act. 'he cnuse is not before them, It is still pending in the Court below, and it is well settled that & Judge of tho Bupreme Court connot grant an injunction in causo pending in the Circuit. ‘Tho application for nn oxtension should be made fefore the ten dnys have elepsed, for the Court would hesi- tate bofore estonding !iulc‘w,h_jolg.hnd nlready oxpired, It 1ony bo- urged'Hiat, atter tho ap- peal is perfected, the Judgo in vacation -may grant the injunction a5 nu original process in that Court, bub it is o vory serious question whether tho scction quoted does nob limit tho powers of a Judge in yaeation to tho par- tioular cases therein .mentioned, and thug loave tho appellant entirely without :remedy,” All troublo would Navo béon avolded had thostatute provided for tho npplioation n cer- {nin numbor of dnys after thofiling of the ap- ponl bond and tho bill of excoptiong, or cer- {ificato of ovidenco, Asit now stands, it is simply ubaurd, inasmuch as it roquires that the applicntion shall bo made upon the record wooks bofore tho party taking the appeal oan be required to complete tho rocord, Much is ncoded in the way of * Law Re- form,” but, until lew-makors can bo veformed or improved up to n poiut where they will ive vome knowledgs of tho subjects upon which thoy aro logislating, and tho probablo, practical workings of their attomptaat legis- Intion, wo need not Jook for anything very Irmum\:’:inl fromilem in tho way of * Law Ro- forni, ; THE BOSTON ROY-BUTCHER. There will be nvery yeneral ncquiesconce in tho verdiet of tha Jury and tho promulgation of the death sentenco upon the monster, Jrsan Poxunoy, the Boston boy-bulcher, whose atrociously eruel ncts aro well known. Durivg the Iast two or threo years Ie ing. murdered soveral children undor circumstan- ccn of the most fiendish charnctor, i sys- tem was to ontico n child awny to goma ge- cluded spot, nnd then torturo it Witk n knife, cutting and nlnshing it in tho most fearful manner boforeputling it to death, The flond foitly roveled in tho sufferings of hig vietims, and tho sight of Wlood gavo him tho highest rapture, Whon mrested, ho made no concealment of his orimes, but boasted of them, tool delight in recounting tho strugglos of his viotims, and coolly informed the authorities that if they wanted him to stop killing children they must keep the children away from him, as ho could not help torturing and Iilling them, The defense, of courso, was insanity, and for onco, at lonst, there is room for congratu- Intion that this common excuso of the mur- derer hos failed. Thero hins been much - dis- cnssion on this case, sud many learned arti- cles hnve been writton o account for the physical and psychologienl Lraits of this boy. Tho dactors and suporintendents of in- pouo institutions and the psychologists bave given us many Jearned opinions as to his montal oand moral occen- tricities, All this time, however, the boy kept on with lis killing and torturing, nnd no child was safe. At lnst people grow tired of lenrned treatises on the why and wherefore of the fiend's erueltios, Children were being murdered and tho murderer was atlarge. Peoplo rebuked tho nuthoritios, and more then ono communication appeared in the public prints written by indignant par- ents, who warned the authoritics that, unless something was done, they would kill the flend ns they would amad dog. It had become a question of the protoction of their children from on irresponsible monster, The authori- tics at Inst appreliended him, There was no question ng to his cvimes, He had adimitted them himself ropeatedly. 'Phe sontenco of denth hes been prononnced, and it is in overy way o righteous one. It protects the com- munity from o monster whose mnnia would have gone on incrensing in virnlence, Itis bumane to the monster himself to got Lim out of tho world. If heis not morally re. sponsible, thon ho is betler off in the other world than in this. Although it cannot re- storo the innocent lives ho has sacrificed, it protacts othors. His cnse is cxnetly analogous to that of a mad dog atlarge. Xill the dog first, and then discuss the peoulisvitics and results of his rabies. Hang this boy.monster first, and thero will be plenty of time to dis- cuss his rabies. THE PROSPERITY OF GERMANY. Germany bag a low taviff, Comparatively fow imports aro taxed at all. Of those whioh are, only a small proportion pay 88 much as 15 per cont, The averago rate of daty is from & to 10 per cent, ‘The country has re- cently waged two great wars and ono littlo oue, at an onormoun expenditure of blood nnd money. Every Gorman, during at lenst three years of his lifo, just as ho is emerging into manhood, is withdrawn from productive industry by enforced sorvico in the avmy, Tho natjon is exposed to tremondous compe- tition in tho raco for industrinl supremacy. England and Belgium disputes with her in the markets of the world, so far as her heovier products are concerned, and France, Switzerland, and Italy vies with her in oll the finer fabrics and works of art. Such s stato of things ought, in obedienco to all the laws leid down Dby tho “Protectionists,” to result in the cossp- tion of industry, the stagnation of trade, and thoruin of the nation, The facts do not ngree with this theory, which is bad, very bad, for the theory. Germany, despito all theso drawbacks, is prosperous. She is so Dbeenuso the lowness of hor tarilf sllows her to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest, and beeauso her currency is at par with the best in the world, and sho plays no juggling tricks with her trade, The cost of living hag increased in conse- quenco of the lato war with France, but not in proportion to tho increase of her wealth, Food, clothing, and shelter, are all much higher than they were five yoars ngo. A striking proof of this is found in tho faot that the Prussian Govornment hins voluntarily raised the pay of its omployes 80 per cent. Dormnestio indusiry has moro than Lopt pace with this advance in the cost of tho primo clements of production, In Stuttgart, tho manufacture of juto hns been begun, and the exporb of the article has doubled within o year, The whole province shows incrensed netivity and prosperity. Tho United States Consul at Stettin writes: *Substantial sigus of improvement aro evorywhero to be seon, Commerco is flourishing, 'manufactories thriving. New steamship lines ave being started, now railronds constructed, now mer~ cnatilo houses springing into oxistence.” Tho whole bady of American Consuls in Germany testify in tho same strain, This must bevery painiul to the ““Protectioniats” of Americn, ‘I'hey might supply each Consul with a copy of Canex's comploto works on political economy, and send o supplemontary caution 'to each not to writo any moro roporls until the Empire was providentially wrotched, Tho foreign trade of Germany showsn like prosperity. It has not only increased in the old channels, but it hing struck out new ones of its own, Our Consuls aro here, again, unanimons. Corroborativo tostimony van bo brought from other sources. Baipriven #nid, in his lacturo before the Sunday-Lecture Bociety, that Germau wmouufactures wera driving Dritish wares out of British markets, and that locomotives wade in Gormany or Bolgium wera yunning on Fnglish ny well as Tussion railways. About four monthsago the threo great rovisws of London sounded o simultaucous alarm that Gormans were dis- placing Englishmen in tho command of the world’s trade, All theso faots spenk for them- selves, ‘I'hey show that a country with fron trado and sound currenoy 'ean build up a gigantio induktry at tho very doors of the monufactuving power Dbofore which our “protected” industries, 8,000 milos away, tremblo and tottor, and ery for bountios of 40 to &0 per cent to be lovied upon and col- leoted from tho consumors of their proteoted goods, Tho annual cullors’ foast ot BhefMold, kng., hoppenod to fall this yorr upon Mhaukaglying Day, and It stith furthor happoned that Minlster HuiteNer wos presont, aod was catlod upon to roepoud to the tomst proposed by Lord Ifuvan- 70Nt *The Unitod Htatos of Amoriea.” ho rosponso wad in excollont hnmor, and wau ro- colvod with rolish. Amunie tho toasons advanood by the spoakor for Lho clososb possible filondly intorcouras wag tho fact, approciablo koonly by tha koow vlades of Shefilold, that tho aggrogato of imports and oxports with tho United Blatos on tho part of Oroat Lritain amounte od to £105,000,000 stesting, boing ono- sixth of Ler aggregato trado with tho wholo world, In addition to this, ho urged tho rapid dovelopment of the manufacturing 10 dustry of Lho Republle, and invited tho man- ufacturors of Shoflleld and other groat industrial contros to do thefr sharo toward contributing to the Ceufennlal colobration, nnd advertise tholr waros an thoy ought to do. e THE ORITIO ORITIOISED AND ANSWERED, To the Fiditor of The Chicann Tribuna : Sin: “ Lawyor * admiia thint In your Buprome-Court editoriate fio campreliondy ko valuablopolntn: First Whiera u judgment In sustained in tho Supreme Gour! futcrost at 116 rato of 10 per contim por aunum sliould 1o aflowed from tho tmo of tha rendition of the juilg~ ment fn tho lowor Court ¢ and, tocond, thnt it slioufd Tie In tho discration of tho Sujiromo Court to doclaro iin apinfon prally or i writiug, and to_dasignato the opinona to Lo put in the reports, Your otlier points, T wggeat, aro unsustnined, for the following reasoua : First, tho bill of exception should bous af prossut, for canen arg po froquontly roverswd ou tha ovidence, or on tha wyldence faling to suetain (o instructions, a6 ou tho law of tho cuse, Whiere errac {a o Hable ta Jietyado th wholo rocord, it ought to boleft to the idgineat of tho nttoriiey, 8 now, low much of thal Tecord it I8 fmportant for’ tho higher Gourt to reviua, Tlio oxpenso of making o rocord discourages n un! dinportint record, Second, in eivil cancs, tho jury pe ou the evidonco ouly, The Judga declarca tho law, I dnriructions aro givon jowriting, snd must bo sound 3t tho Judgo does Iifa dity, But 1€ tho Judge bus the ability, after thoirial i all ovor, toacoany errorin tho verdict or Iustructions, ho can grant n new trial, T Ashort 1most poeitively thut wherover a caso ia appealed 4t 18 only ufter tho Jidge below hua had an opportunity fo dolivorately roview Lot tio vardlct and luw, snd,on hearing the atiornoys, Link rofusod o_now trial'and do- clared Sound tho law fud verdict, Such Tax TRinusm must kuow 10 bo tho faots, 1 dony that iho lower Court has any oxeuso excopt n mistaken opim- fon when its canco nro roverscd mnd remnndod. 1t ‘seoma o bo TuE TIIBUSEe opinton. that, should the Judge chargo tho jury orally, they would more fre~ anently declde correctly, T law requiriug writton instructlons was for tho very purposs of pravonting o Judgo from Indicating 10 the JUEY thelr yordict on tho ovidonco, For, if thojury foso tiolr indopend= auce, tho Judge might ns well iry tho whols case, As 4t is, 4 tho Judgs doca not lke the voraiet, lia granta s novw trial until ho is gatisfled that the caso I all right %0 70 t the Sitprome Court. Lawyes, Cuioago, Dec. 11 nEPLY, Thoro ato soveral errorsin the abovo communte cation which require corrootion 1. No ouo ever proposed that the jodgment should draw intorast at 10 por cont. Tho prapo- sition wns, that in addition to the G per cont in- torost which tho judgment bore, tho Court should havo tho power tp nfix a3 a penally 10 per cont upon tho amount of tho judgmont whero tha nppeal was voxations or taken for de- lay. “Tawyer” saysho *comprohends” the 10 por cont interont suggestion as valuable. No such suggestion over having beon mode, what ‘bacomos of his comprehension? 2, No onoovor proposed that tho Court should deliver any opinions orally; but simply whore tho cago did nat warrant it, no opinion whatover should be deliverad. 'That tho judgmont should bo simply rovorsed or amirmed. This eugges- tion, Lo says, ho “comprahonds” as vatuablo. It nover having been made, the comprebonsion sooms to bo & Tittlo shaky. 8. What bo moans by saying as n roason for rotaining tho present clumey bill of ex- coptions, that ‘*‘cases aro as frequent- ly rovorsed on tho ovidenco falling to sustain tho instructions as on the law of the case,” fa **ouo of thowo things no fellah ovor csn find out,” ff thore is no ovidenco in tho caso on which to base tho instruction complained of, it would be erronaous a8 matterof lnw, and a very short bill of oxceptions would bo suflicicnt to presens the face that thore was o ovideuco on tho point covered by tho instruction. 4, Ho says, “Whore error i o liable to porvado tho tchole record, it ought to bo lelt to the judgmont of tho attorney, as mow, how much of that record 1t la importunt for the higlor Court to review."” Itis certainly curioun that errors aro fo liablo to pervado tho whole rec- ord. If the Court porsistently orrs, or it s claimed that {8 poraistontly errs, in Its rulings upon the admission or exclusion of ovidence, a proper bill of exceptions would present them for toviow, and that, too, without taking up ait tho ovidenco, 1f the judgmont is against ovi- douca, that could be ahown without taking upall tho ovidonce, Morcover, in legal theory, what the bill of oxceptions shall contain does not rest in tho judgment of the attorney preparing it, but in the judgment of the Court by whom it is scliled. What wo ask s, thot the judgment of tho Court shall be oxercisod in the manner we have poiuted out. 5. “Lawyor” says, in spoaking af; the instrue tlons, ' His iustructions ara givon in writing, and must bo eound if the Judge does his duly Are orromeous justructions broaches of judicial duly? The Judge guilty of & breach of duly ought to le impeached. We meokly suggost that such pun- ishment would be too sovere, and would bo dis. posed to treat the giving of an erroncous in. struction 08 a mistako s to the Jw rathor than a broach of daty. 8. “Lawyor” asserts ' most positively that whorovor a cago is appealed it is only after tho Judgo below bes had su opportunity to deliber- atoly roviow the vordiot and law, and, on hear- ing tho attorneys, has refused » now trial and declared sound the lawand tho vordict” This is indeod s discovory, ‘Tho profossion and the gonoral publlo will bo delighted to lontn that no appoal can bo takon to the Supremo Court unhl aftor judgmont is rondered, and that 1o judgmont will be rendered upon the vordict of & jury, pondiug & motion for new trisl; until after tho declsion of the motion. What wo aro troubled to discovor s, what on carthall this hias to do with tho mannor 1 whick a bill of oxceptions should bo prepared, 7. Lastly, *‘Lawyer " deolares, * Agit Is, if the Judgo does not like the verdict, ho g{nula a new trlal, until ho is satisfied that the case is all right to go {o the Supreme Court.” What does our corroapordont moan by tita? Doos Lo menn that the Couzt below ia to keop on granting new tritts until thero oro errors cnough in tho record to rovise tho judgmont, and that then *the case is all right to go to thoe Bupromo Court,” or thab Bo will contlnuo to graut new trisls until thers are no orrors in iho rocord? Wo suggest that If thero are no errors in tho record, the easo ought not to go to the Buprome Court. Suels o case would bo * all wrong " to go to tho Supromo Court, iustend of “all right.” That tho Court bolow grants now trials in ordor to got casos *all right to go to tho Bupreme Oourt,” is a vary novel viow of tho objecty and purposed of now trials, ———————— 1t 6 rathor refroshing to ordinary mortsls to fool that extraordinary mortals aro not oxomph from the winor ills of lifs, but must cndurc thow in equal degreo with tho consolatlon thab thoy canuot purchngo exemption from them nor ward thom off with all the proclamations or or- dors thoy may fesue. Whon King KAnAzAua ar- rivod in Washington his Royal thront waa soro § Lis Royal oyes were ruuning ; his Royal noso was utufled up; and ho talked tho Sandwich fulanda lingo in o shocking munuor fora King. It was natural, theroforo, that King Karaxauva, when Lo arrved la Washingtan, shoald Lo uablo to ro- coivo the Prosidont, Iustead of exchaug- ing congrutulations ke had to devote Limsoll to bayborry anuft, hoarhound-candy, fassood poultices, and gooso-oll. By n mournful colu= eldonco, tho Presidnnt was unable to recoivo King KALAKAUA, for tho ltopublicat throat was 8050 tho Ropublican oyos wore running; tho Repub- llean noso was stutfod up; and ho talked RKopub- Jican, English in 8 most shocking maanoy 101 & Provident. Whis Hubility of Kings snd mag= nintes to littlo vexations brings them on a lovel with tho common bord, When King sud Com- moner can both tako colds in tho hoad, suda flen orn browso on a Queon with the ramo jm- punity 1t oau dovour n weshorwoman, s nob tho distance botweon thom moroly conveutionnl? Jliss Xate F1end has been voluminouely fne torviowod by tho Graphfo, It is not clonr that hior dobut on (ho stago was o marked sucoesd. lor orltios in tho gontlest lsugusge tell horib woa o dlsmal gort of sucocss, if any. Duthow oau thoir judgment bo rolied upon? Ihe bess of thom eald sho was ** a Now Eugloud glrl of feall